74. Just another turn

🎧 00:00 ericade.radio - Time for another episode of Flashback - Tracks from the past

DJ Daemon 00:00.334 Time for another episode of Flashback. Tracks from the past. Nearly didn't have time to create this show. You know, the Babylonians keep stealing my wonders and Gandhi tries to nuke me all the time. Heck, the Americans are better at research and Napoleon and the French are eyeing my capital. Right, just one more turn.And I will get back to you, telling you the story of Civilization 1, the most influential game ever made.

🎧 00:06 DJ Daemon: Nearly didn't have time to create this show as the Babylonians keep stealing my wonders and Gandhi tries to nuke me all the time. Heck, the Americans are better at research and now Napoleon and the French are eyeing my capital. Right, just one more turn, and I will get back to telling you…

🎧 00:33 Blasa - Tropical Infestation

🎧 05:40 DJ Daemon: Released in 1990, Sid Meier's legendary nation builder may be one of the most famous game series ever made. And weirdly enough, it came from Microprose, a company mostly making flight simulators. The genre is called 4X, as in \"Explore - Expand - Exploit - Exterminate\". You start as one…

DJ Daemon 05:41.294 was a tropical infestation. Civilization 1 then. Released in 1990, Sid Meier's legendary nation builder may be one of the most famous game series ever made. And weirdly enough, it came from Microprose, a company mostly famous for making flight simulators.The genre is called 4X, as in explore, expand, exploit, exterminate. You start as one of up to seven other civilizations, all that why for the same humble goals. Gobbling everything up, ruling the world, and finally launching a ship to the stars. You know, basic stuff. But we all start out small. In 4000 BCE,You're just a small tribe of men and women looking for a place to call home. And then you go from there.

🎧 06:40 Gammis - Beneath the sun

🎧 12:15 DJ Daemon: \"I have no idea how any of this works\". That was my first words as I loaded my pirate copy of Civilization I for the Amiga. Many hours later, my chief concern was how to not be forced by my father to bed. I just had to play one more turn of this magnificent game! Yeah, about the term.…

DJ Daemon 12:15.214 Gamis and Beneath the Sun. I have no idea how any of that works. Those were my first words as I loaded my pirated copy of Civilization 1 for the Amiga. Many hours later my chief concern was how not to be forced by my father to go to bed. I just had to play one more turn of this magnificent game. Yeah, about that term.The game creator himself, Sid Meier, got this from the first feedback the development team got from the players. They couldn't stop playing. Just one more turn. This means it's more like it's 3 AM and I need to go to work in the morning. no! But I need to fix this in the game first.

🎧 13:05 Epoch - Secret of the stone

🎧 15:26 DJ Daemon: The first game came out, as I said, in 1990. And to this day, the most recent game in the series is \"Civilization 6\". But let’s talk about the first game and more specifically, the Amiga version. It came on four diskettes and had all the bells and whistles of the PC-game. But the intro…

DJ Daemon 15:26.484 Epoch, Secret of the Stone. As I said, the first game came out in 1990. And to this day, the most recent game in the series is Civilization 6. But let's talk about the first game, and more specifically, the Amiga version. It came on four diskettes and had all the bells and whistles of the PC game.But the intro was horribly slow and had to be watched every time you started the game. It went on for several dreary minutes. It showed how Earth was formed and in the end there were us. This is a bit weird as it's well known that if Earth's whole existence was compressed to just one day, humans would come along in the last two seconds.

🎧 16:16 Gammis - Golden garden

🎧 19:17 DJ Daemon: The game is played with a few important tasks to consider: · Building your empire. · Defending or attacking. · Researching science. · Directing your cities. Among the other Civilizations you must deal with are the English, the French, the Americans, Chinese, the Babylonians, and the…

DJ Daemon 19:17.944 Gamis again, and this time it's Golden Garden. The game is played with few, but important tasks to consider. Building your empire, defending or attacking, researching science, directing your cities. Among the other civilizations you must deal with, well, you find the English, the French, the Americans, the Chinese, the Babylonians and the Indians. You can trade with them,You can fight or even exterminate them, and you must beat them in scientific research. You see, the goal is either crushing all other civilizations, or to launch an expedition to Alpha Centauri before anyone else does. They have different levels of agendas, modus operandi and aggression levels. Hey, when we speak of aggression levels and gandy...I got a funny story for you.

🎧 20:16 Qumran - Camel Ride

🎧 25:07 DJ Daemon: Gandhi is the kindest and most peaceful opponent, if I even should call him that, the game has to offer. Always choosing the nice way out, except when he goes totally ballistic and nukes everyone else for no apparent reason. This is the game's most famous bug. All civilizations have an…

DJ Daemon 25:11.513 Gandhi is the kindest and the most peaceful opponent, if I even should call him that, that the game has to offer. Always choosing the nice way out, except when he goes totally ballistic and nukes everyone for no apparent reason. This is the game's most famous bug. You see, all civilizations have an aggression counter that goes from 0 to 255, where255 is total warmonger maniac mode and Zero is pacifist to the core. Gandhi's India is pegged at one, so they are sugar and spice and everything nice. At about the same time as nooks come available, most civilizations switch to democracy. This subtracts two from the aggression level of that civilization. India is at one and you subtract two.that does not compute. And the game mistakenly interpreted this as 255, so Gandhi basically becomes the love child between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.

🎧 26:21 Psirius - On the cliff

🎧 31:37 DJ Daemon: I got to admit something here: the Gandhi story is true, but vastly overblown. You may be forgiven for never seeing Gandhi at all as India will only be available if you select 6 other opponents. Also, democracies cannot start wars, meaning Gandhi will be ok to deal with if you didn't…

DJ Daemon 31:37.614 Serious on the cliff. I got to admit something here. The Gandhi story is true, but vastly overblown. You actually may be forgiven for never seeing Gandhi at all, as India will only be available if you select six other opponents. Also, democracies cannot start wars, meaning Gandhi will be okay to deal with if you didn't start a war with him before India became a democracy.and India's passive stance on war often gets them wiped out before the nuclear age. But still, it's a good story.

🎧 32:15 K. Jose - Sit Back

🎧 34:18 DJ Daemon: Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley, who is a board game designer played around with the idea that would later become Civilization. The inspiration were games as \"Empire\", \"Railroad Tycoon\" and \"Sim City\". They wondered what would be bigger as a concept than Sid’s earlier game \"Railroad…

DJ Daemon 34:18.54 K. Josey. Sid back. Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley, the latter who is a board game designer, they played around with an idea that would later become Civilization. The inspiration were games as Empire, Railroad Tycoon and SimCity. They wondered what would be bigger as a concept than Sid's earlier games. You know, Railroad Tycoon.The answer was Civilization and it was an instant success, coming first to the PC and MS-DOS. When the Amiga version came out in 1992, the Swedish computer magazine Datormagasin, they reviewed it and gave it among the highest scores they ever awarded, 99%. The reviewer Johan Bureana took his hat off for the game.It was called the best game ever by them.

🎧 35:16 LittleElk - Vivid Imagination

🎧 40:35 DJ Daemon: Graphics, sound, and music were good but not spectacular. Everything was up to the magic game play. You tried to manage the economy, setting up goals for your research, building the wonders of the world, keeping tabs on the opponents, and beefing up your military. All at the same time.…

DJ Daemon 40:36.142 Little elk, vivid imagination. The graphics, the sound and the music, they were good, but not spectacular. Everything was up to the magic gameplay. You tried to manage the economy, setting up goals for your research, building the wonders of the world, keeping tabs on the opponents and beefing up your military. All at the same time. Later games became more policy drivenand put in planning as a central part of the game. One of the most interesting part of the game is how it always requires you to pay attention. But if you start winning so much that you are superior to others, it can become a bit tedious. Thankfully, the difficulty of the game can be adjusted.

🎧 41:25 Ivory - Horizon

🎧 46:53 DJ Daemon: Just to sum it up: the game series has become a staple of strategy gaming and later games did massive improvements and fixed many of Civilization 1s shortcoming. My father loves the council you have in Civilization II, which was when Full Motion Video was all the rage. The ministers…

DJ Daemon 46:54.286 Just to sum it up, the game series has become a staple of strategy gaming, and later games did massive improvements and fixed many of Civilization 1's shortcomings. My father loves the council that you have in Civilization 2. This was when Full Motion Video was all the rage. The ministers, they shout, they bicker,and complain and make cheesy Elvis Presley references. The later games added religions, culture pressure, spycraft, better diplomacy and several different new victory conditions. My favorite of the later-date civilizations is the fifth installment. I don't really like Civilization 6 and that's for reasons I'm not entirely clear of.

🎧 47:51 Eagle - A Moment Together

🎧 50:16 DJ Daemon thanks you for listening.

DJ Daemon 50:16.694 Eagle, a moment together. And this is where we have to leave civilization for now. This is me, DJ Daemon, leaving the airwaves. And in a few minutes we are going back to normal station automation. Or you can find another podcast. We have a few episodes by now. This is flashback tracks from the past. And if you want to hear a post and maybe future episodes,Try Ericade.Radio

🎧 50:48 Bottlehead of 7ynivf - Japan 2140ad

🎧 54:48 DJ Daemon leads you into the good night.

DJ Daemon 54:49.042 It's Bottlehead and Japan 2040 AD Sounds like some manga whatever or anime or something I don't know much about that Anyway leading you into the good night is Spring and China Ear Rape I'm sorry that's name of the song I don't make up the rules And then it's Greg Zydowski and Proboscis with First Noel yesWe're going to play a Christmas song because I don't know, it isn't crazy enough in this world.

🎧 55:22 5pr1n6 - China Earrape

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🎧 58:14 Greg Szydlowski and Proboscis - 1st Noel (Tribal Love Mix)

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